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• The best advice I can give is to ignore advice. Life is too short to be distracted by the opinions of others.

  Russell Edson

  Life Is Too Short, Giving, Opinion

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• The advice of friends must be received with a judicious reserve; we must not give ourselves up to it and follow it blindly, whether right or wrong.

  Pierre Charron

  Giving, Lost Friendship, Reserves

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• I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Mistake, Learning, Experience

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• We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.

  Tom Stoppard

  Giving, Buckets, Grain

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• It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice.

  Anne Tyler

  Life, Relationship, Offering

  Anne Tyler (2012). “Celestial Navigation”, p.138, Random House

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• A good scare is worth more than good advice.

  Horace

  Funny, Simple Life, Scare

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• The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

  Philip James Bailey

  Men, Giving, Deeds

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.187

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• Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

  Plautus

  Wise, Men, Needs

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• What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.

  Paul Wellstone

  Power, Organization, Political

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• Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Kind, Trouble

  Sydney J. Harris (1953). “Strictly personal”

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• Advice is seldom welcome. Those who need it most, like it least.

  Samuel Johnson

  Needs, Welcome

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• Advice is offensive, it shows us that we are known to others as well as to ourselves.

  Samuel Johnson

  Offensive, Shows, Wells

  Samuel Johnson (1848). “The Wisdom of the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler”, p.97

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• Listen kid, take my advice, never hate a song that has sold half a million copies.

  Irving Berlin

  Song, Hate, Kids

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Investing Money, People

  "Student to CEO" by Simon Dixon. Ecademy Press, p. 125, 2011.

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• It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.161, Courier Corporation

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• A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.

  James Callaghan

  Leadership, Courage, Political

  "The Harvard Business Review" Magazine, November 1, 1986.

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• Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.

  Josh Billings

  People, Opinion, Human Nature

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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• The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

  Phillips Brooks

  Friendship, Giving, Desire

  Phillips Brooks (1890). “Visions and tasks, and other sermons”

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• Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Giving, Speak

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.

  John Churton Collins

  Nine, Flattery, Cases

  In L. C. Collins Life of John Churton Collins (1912) p. 316

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• Carrot Top... I gave him advice once and he ran with it. He should thank me.

  Rip Taylor

  Carrots, Should, Ran

  "Rip's Entertainment!". Interview with Paisley Yankolovich, www.emol.org.

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• You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

  Willis Lamb

  Affair, Deference, Following

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• A woman in love never takes advice.

  Rosamond Marshall

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• I would never offer advice without the person asking for it. I, in general, don't believe in giving advice, actually, as a human being I don't.

  Joan Chen

  Believe, Giving, Asking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again.

  William Shakespeare

  Wise, Men, Giving

  William Shakespeare (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Timon of Athens. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear. Vol. 8”, p.562

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